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The Hancock Town Library has announced the winners of the 2023 Bikes for Books Program. The Peterborough Masons donated the bikes.Thirty-eight children, ranging in ages from 2 to 13 years, participated in the four-week program and together read a...

The Hancock Woman’s Club has awarded Meghan Bedard of Hancock the 2023 Anonymous Donor Scholarship.Bedard is continuing her training to become a registered nurse with a hope of becoming an emergency room nurse. She is an AEMT and volunteer firefighter...

James A. Tuttle Library, 45 Main St. in Antrim, will host a STEM challenge Thursday, May 25, at 3:30 p.m. after school. The challenge will be to make the tallest freestanding structure using pipe cleaners.

The bill SCR 1 aimed to preserve – and eventually add to the New Hampshire Constitution – the right of our state to hold the first primaries in the nation.When it came up for a vote in the House, I voted against it. Not because our demographics don’t...

With Mother’s Day approaching, I have been thinking about my mother. She was the quintessential post-World War II housewife and mother. Here are lessons I learned from my mother:-- Your dinner plate should be color-balanced. Oh my, if you served...

ConVal’s boys’ and girls’ track and field teams each finished in third place at a meet at Hollis-Brookline High School on May 9, an event that featured a new school record in the boys’ 4x100 relay.The boys scored 71 points, with the 4x100-meter relay...

By ROWAN WILSON

The Awesome Potatoes, Great Brook School’s robotics team, recently returned from the VEX World Championship in Dallas, where 787 team from over 40 countries competed this year.This was the second year the team qualified for the world championship, and...

The Peterborough Woman’s Club is offering a $1,000 scholarship in memory of Janet Achille.Any adult woman over the age of 21 currently residing in the ConVal School District who wishes to obtain educational credentials or skills so she may return to...

ANTRIMLibrary schedules plant swap, open houseJames A. Tuttle Library, 45 Main St. in Antrim, will hold a plant swap and open house Saturday, May 13, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.People can bring unwanted house plants, garden plants or cuttings to share and...

By ROWAN WILSON

Editor’s note: This story references issues with mental health, suicide and suicide prevention.When Callie Boisvert and Abbey Shumway were freshmen at ConVal High School, they held their first Break the Silence 5K to support suicide prevention and...

Project Shakespeare is taking applications from students 5 to 18 years old for its upcoming 2023 summer season that begins June 24 and runs through Aug. 6. Auditions are not required and students need not be experienced. All interested candidates...

Smoky Quartz, a journal of literature and art, is accepting submissions of prose, poetry and art for its late-2023 online issue from May 15 to Sept. 15. Complete submission guidelines are available at smokyquartz.org/submissions. Both new and...

Sponsored by the Francestown Old Meeting House, the Tour de Francestown bicycle ride is back on Saturday, May 20. Starting time is 9 a.m.Melissa and Ed Dishong designed the 2023 event as a “gravel grinder.” The circuit includes a mixture of surfaces,...

BASEBALLDespite the overcast skies and the lopsided score, ConVal baseball coach Matthew Harris saw a bright spot in his team’s 10-0 loss to Souhegan High School on Wednesday.Through five innings, senior pitcher Liam O’Mahony allowed only one run,...

Our daily food choices have an enormous impact on both our health and the environment. The good news is that there is power in those choices. In a world where many things seem out of our control, how we choose to nourish our bodies three times a day...

By ROWAN WILSON

Friday was the opening day of the Francestown Community Market, and at the end stall, the Francestown 4-H club was squeezing lemons and selling lemonade with flavors they made using locally grown ingredients like rhubarb, dandelion and thyme. The 4-H...

By ROWAN WILSON

It was warm and sunny for Fracestown’s annual Tim Samuelson Memorial Kids Fishing Derby held at Bixby Pond on Sunday morning, and participants were reeling in rainbow trout all around the pond.“This year was beautiful,” said Recreation Commission...

By ORIANA CAMARA

The Farm at Wolf Pine Hollow hosted its second TulipFête Saturday.This year, the owners of the farm, Tom and Ariane Ice, chose to expand the festival into the main field to host more people, flowers and activities, which ranged from face-painting to...

The Conant girls’ tennis team won the final doubles match to score a 5-4 win over Bishop Brady at home Monday.Conant had lost to Bishop Brady 7-2 at its first match of the season on April 3.In singles, Margaret Winiecki won 8-0 in the No, 1 spot,...

The Francestown Academy Coffeehouse invites will hold its fourth first Saturday coffeehouse May 6, starting at 7 p.m.The featured act will be Decatur Creek, along with Tyler Allgood, Jen and Dan Klardie, Gabriel Garcia and Jonas Taub. Marcy Tripp...